1) Decay : forgetting due to memories fading over time.
This often occurs in sensory storage and STM since we do not need to process and store all the information that we encounter.
As a result, there is a lot of information we don't attend to, recognize, or rehearse, and so it simply fades away.
2) Interference - hindrance of learning new information because of other information learned before or after the new information. There are two types:
a) Proactive interference - information learned previously causes problems with new information.
b) Retroactive interference - new information cause recall problem with previously learned information.
3) Retrieval-Based Forgetting
- information stored in LTM is not being accessed or brought out properly; however, if given enough time or cues, it is possible to retrieve the information.
4) Storage-Based Forgetting
- information in LTM was distorted, altered, or changed so it is no longer accessible when searching for what it "used to be".
The information can be retrieved, but only if you look for it in its new form.
5) Motivated Forgetting
- a purposeful process of blocking or "suppressing" information.
FREUD referred to this as Repression - keeping distressing thoughts or feelings buried in the unconscious.
VERY suspect theory
False Memory
1. The Misinformation Effect - an unconscious adoption of later-learned information.
2. Associative linking- an unconscious linking of a non-present piece of information
Deese–Roediger–McDermott (DRM) paradigm
- listing words cognitively associated with a non-present term
1) Decay : forgetting due to memories fading over time.
This often occurs in sensory storage and STM since we do not need to process and store all the information that we encounter.
As a result, there is a lot of information we don't attend to, recognize, or rehearse, and so it simply fades away.
2) Interference - hindrance of learning new information because of other information learned before or after the new information. There are two types:
a) Proactive interference - information learned previously causes problems with new information.
b) Retroactive interference - new information cause recall problem with previously learned information.
3) Retrieval-Based Forgetting
- information stored in LTM is not being accessed or brought out properly; however, if given enough time or cues, it is possible to retrieve the information.
4) Storage-Based Forgetting
- information in LTM was distorted, altered, or changed so it is no longer accessible when searching for what it "used to be".
The information can be retrieved, but only if you look for it in its new form.
5) Motivated Forgetting
- a purposeful process of blocking or "suppressing" information.
FREUD referred to this as Repression - keeping distressing thoughts or feelings buried in the unconscious.
VERY suspect theory
False Memory
1. The Misinformation Effect - an unconscious adoption of later-learned information.
2. Associative linking- an unconscious linking of a non-present piece of information
Deese–Roediger–McDermott (DRM) paradigm
- listing words cognitively associated with a non-present term